Jiantang

Town in Yunnan, China

Jiantang

建塘镇 · རྒྱལ་ཐང་རྡལ།

Town

Historical center of Jiantang

Jiantang

Coordinates: 27°50′N 99°42′E﻿ / ﻿27.833°N 99.700°E﻿ / 27.833; 99.700
Country| China
Province| Yunnan
Prefecture| Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
County| Shangri-La County
Elevation

| 3,282 m (10,768 ft)
Time zone| UTC+8 (CST)
Jiantang

Chinese name
Chinese| 建塘
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Jiàntáng
Tibetan name
Tibetan| རྒྱལ་ཐང།
| Transcriptions

Wylie| rgyal thang
Tibetan Pinyin| Gyaitang

Jiantang or Gyaitang (Gyälthang) is a town in northern Yunnan, seat of Shangri-La County and Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

## Languages

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Khams Tibetan and Southwestern Mandarin are the main languages spoken in the town. Selibu is a Mandarin–Tibetan mixed language spoken by approximately 900 ethnic Hui people in the town.[1]

## Climate

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Jiantang has a subtropical highland climate (Cwb) with little to no rainfall from November to April and moderate to heavy rainfall from May to October.

Climate data for Jiantang

Month  | Jan  | Feb  | Mar  | Apr  | May  | Jun  | Jul  | Aug  | Sep  | Oct  | Nov  | Dec  | Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)  | 7.4
(45.3)  | 7.9
(46.2)  | 10.7
(51.3)  | 13.5
(56.3)  | 17.1
(62.8)  | 18.3
(64.9)  | 18.4
(65.1)  | 18.1
(64.6)  | 16.9
(62.4)  | 14.6
(58.3)  | 11.2
(52.2)  | 8.6
(47.5)  | 13.6
(56.4)
Daily mean °C (°F)  | 0.3
(32.5)  | 1.4
(34.5)  | 4.2
(39.6)  | 7.2
(45.0)  | 11.1
(52.0)  | 13.5
(56.3)  | 14.1
(57.4)  | 13.6
(56.5)  | 12.3
(54.1)  | 8.9
(48.0)  | 4.4
(39.9)  | 1.4
(34.5)  | 7.7
(45.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)  | −6.7
(19.9)  | −5.1
(22.8)  | −2.3
(27.9)  | 1.0
(33.8)  | 5.1
(41.2)  | 8.7
(47.7)  | 9.9
(49.8)  | 9.2
(48.6)  | 7.8
(46.0)  | 3.3
(37.9)  | −2.3
(27.9)  | −5.7
(21.7)  | 1.9
(35.4)
Average rainfall mm (inches)  | 5
(0.2)  | 11
(0.4)  | 22
(0.9)  | 36
(1.4)  | 59
(2.3)  | 127
(5.0)  | 194
(7.6)  | 171
(6.7)  | 102
(4.0)  | 61
(2.4)  | 13
(0.5)  | 6
(0.2)  | 807
(31.6)
Source: Climate-Data.org[2]

## References

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1. ^ Zhou, Yang; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2021-11-10). "Evidentiality in Selibu". Diachronica. 39 (2). John Benjamins Publishing Company: 268–309\. doi:10.1075/dia.19055.zho. ISSN 0176-4225.
2. ^ "Climate: Jiantang". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved September 17, 2020.

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